Garance - Thanks for the information and for replying.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > You should check: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Will do. > If you are fairly up-to-date with freebsd-stable, the preferred order > would be more like: I presume this follows my 'cvsup', and expect this is true for freebsd-release as well? > *READ* /usr/src/UPDATING > [every time, just to make sure there are no special > issues with this specific snapshot of freebsd] > mergemaster -p ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-- This is new to me - thanks. > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > [reboot, to make sure the kernel at least boots up] > get into single user mode > [usually by booting into it in the above step, > although I often cheat on that...] > make installworld > mergemaster > [go thru all the questions from mergemaster] > reboot into your new world. That's exactly what I wanted to know. > You do not want to install the new world before you know whether > the kernel that matches it will work on your hardware. If the > kernel does *not* work (and I have had cases where this happens, > although not very often on freebsd-stable), then you can easily > back out by just renaming the kernel-related files in '/'. > > If you have done the installworld and *then* find out the new > kernel does not work, well, you'll be in a world of hurt. and that's a _bad_thing(TM)_ in my book. ... > The documented order is the order you should stick with, because > it's the only order that we actively *try* to keep working. If > some other order happens to work, feel free to use it, but do not > come complaining to us for the update where that alternate order > does NOT happen to work... Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks again. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
